Hi Christy,
I saw T. Boone was appearing in the Big Tent. Was he long-winded?

Hey Christy,
Memories or nightmares

Christy,

found this one in the Twin Cities :D

Welcome !

Hi, Christy.
Thanks for all the coverage. Hope all the FirePups and friends there are having a blast–sure sounds like it.

FunnyD

Bill Clinton’s campaign for the presidency famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” I remain astonished during this election year that the corporate right wing propaganda media manages to prevent discussion of the ecoonomy from dominating this campaign. We are all worse off than we were four or eight years ago, and McCain is rightly labeled “McSame.” But rather than an almost endless series of media stories about the complete domestic economy disaster that is the Bush Administration, tales of economic woe are presented in an isolated, unconnected fashion – as if “bad things just happen,” in an unavoidable economic rhythm that cannot be blamed on anybody.

If any blame IS assigned, it is always to the “Democrat Congress” since 2006, as if that body COULD, if it wished, ruin the economy this badly in two years.

We need to increase the awareness in this nation that the Mainstream Media has become a propaganda vehicle, and that what you see on the NBC Nightly News is not news, but a series of lies designed to keep you confused and to direct your anger in the wrong directions.

Hey Christy!
Saw the ad already. MSNBC ran it and then interviewed an Obama advocate female veteran of the war who lost two legs — sorry I don’t remember her name. I’m on information overload right now. She spoke of her experience with The Surge.
There are too many veterans on the other side of those who spoke in the ad to give their perspectives for the ad to be the only voice.
(Thanks for being there and all your hard work.)

Excellent.

Thanks, Christy, that’s a great video. Unfortunately, it looks like Gustav could hit New Orleans Monday afternoon as a category 3. I fear another major catastrophe and you can bet the repugs will be too busy up north to do anything about it. I was wondering about getting a grass-roots effort to send a bunch of buses down to get people out this time….

Hiya Christy!

Given ‘em heaven are you?

Great ad, clear, simple imagery, yet sufficiently nuanced as to suggest intelligent ‘design’ and respect, as in ‘reasonable’ emotional appeal, for those towards whom it is directed.

Along with the stellar ads coming from Obama, mayhap we can all say, “Mission accopmlished” … and then, get down to the serious task of making this a sane world and our nation a respected member of that community.

Thanks, Christy for being ‘there’ for all of us.

Thanks also to the rest of the FDL heavy hitters on tour.

;~)

Tammy Duckworth
The McShame group is always claiming the vet Mantra no one ever asks why are the troops in Iraq funding Obama 6 to 1

Newspaper-stuffed levees are a huge concern.

Happy Birthday, McBush.

Hey is today the anniversary of Krakatoa

it may not be what we’re all looking for – but in a brief interview about his Acceptance Speech

“The single most important thing I have to make clear is the choice we have in November between the same failed policy of the last eight years for the middle class and the new agenda to boost income for Americans and help families who are struggling,” he said in a brief interview with The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. “I will make that contrast very clearly.

with 25 – 35 million Americans scheduled to watch, this may play very well in Peoria

linky

Hi Demi,

It might have been Tammy Duckworth: Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs

She ran for Henry Hyde’s vacated Congressional seat in 2006 and was viciously slandered by the Republican attack machine. Evidently, in losing both legs and partial use of an arm while serving in Iraq, she hadn’t paid sufficient dues for her opponent to run against her on the issues.

She addresses the convention tonight. Wikipedia bio here.

Thank you Mike. Running out to a meeting and otherwise kinda swamped. Good to have a firepup back me up with the details. :)
Did they say she was going to speak at the convention later? I think so.
What a woman!
Truth to (lieing) power!
(((Duckworth!!!))

saw Senator Jack Reed make that very point on the teevee this morning -

Thanks Rat. I’ll be watching…hopefully I’ll be back for all the great speeches tonight.

And the surge is soooo working
http://www.juancole.com/

Dave is interviewing Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire

I have two boys in college (we all eat a lot of PB&Js) – one wants to teach (wanted to go into politics but feels he’s not rich enough nor connected enough to do so)and one wants to be an editor. They both want to move out of this country to find a job. I cannot begin to describe their dismay and their anger over what this country has become. I keep saying they need to stay in order to make changes, fixing is best done from the inside. They have given up and it breaks my heart – they feel if one does not have money, one cannot make any difference because this country is based on money and big business and if you don’t have one of those, you cannot make any changes. So, speaking for my 22 and 19 year old, we need HOPE because right now we don’t have much hope for this country and we need swift action on many fronts because the wheels turn too slowly and the slowness allows the system to corrupt even more.

Thanks for all the great coverage. And thanks for letting me vent.

fyi – may not have been Duckworth if she was talking about personal experience with Surge. She (under Rahm’s DCCC) ran for congress in 06 and was not in Iraq for the splurge :D

fly-by—pelosi up on cspan, solis introducing her……emily’s list forum, clinton just finished…

and repub platfrom meeting will be back on cspan other channel soon.

bbl

I hope that you will write a letter to Obama (and a lot of other Dems) and tell that exact story. It touches on a gut level. Hug your boys.

FWIW, saw an advert, Canada welcomes, required NET Worth $300,000.00

Do not give up hope they will be repairing from within. ;-)

She was on the tube this am. She may have gone in connection w/ her job in state gov’t as Dir. of military affairs.

Hey firepups!

Pretty please keep your fingers crossed for us that Gustav goes somewhere else besides New Orleans. We can’t take this right now.

The pumps are not working correctly and we have been having street flooding with summertime thunderstorms.

Oh and Friday is the 3rd Anniversary of Katrina.

Thanks!

Anna

from below:

The FDIC? It’s actually just “you and me”

http://globaleconomicanalysis……pping.html

Ultimately it is the citizens who are being saddled with every single debt that enriched the banksters and their politicians.

OT Gov ahnold may not go to Gooper convention
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..21831.html

Duckworth address the convention tonight. This is from the listing.

Hour # 6 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (LOCAL)

By 9:00 PM local, are they referring to Mountain time?

This if from her Wikpedia bio.

Duckworth lost both of her legs on November 12, 2004, when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting was hit by a rocket propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents. The explosion “almost completely destroyed her right arm, breaking it in three places and tearing tissue from the back side of it.”

We’re pulling for you. If it comes, please be sure to get to higher ground before the wind and rain start. Those levies won’t hold.

My understanding is if Ahnuld leaves the state, the Lt Gov takes over (a Dem I believe) and would be able to settle the budget stand off with the lege.

We are going on vacation Saturday. Flight out of town. So we won’t be here but it is still scary.

We always evacuate. Always.

Levees are useless.

(((((MsAnna)))))
(((((NOLA)))))

Keep us posted if there are concrete ways we can help.

FunnyD

He will probably address the convention via tv link then – hope he tells them not to be economic girly men

Hooray! Go Arnuld – the Repubs are calling. This standoff is absurd. The Repubs are so spiteful they don’t care.

I saw T. Boone was appearing in the Big Tent. Was he long-winded?

I’d venture to guess a real gas-bag. :~)

Good luck, I”ll keep my fingers crossed Gustav fizzles AND heads somewhere else.

Thanks all. We need all the help we can get…

He is terribly gassy, isn’t he?

What was that line from Governor Schweitzer last night? Something like, “-the most valuable barrel of oil is the one we don’t use.”

I’m still waiting for any speaker at the DNC to utter the word “torture.”

War crimes are the elephant in the living room. WTF??

Richard Dreyfus on MSNBC talking about his documentary “America Betrayed”
Repub. Corrupt thru and thru

((RoyalOak))

Well…just checked my email…

The local organization levees.org calling for an investigation into the levee failure on 8/29 is asking for support. Thought I would pass it along. This is an issue that affects many.

Text of the email:

12:00p August 27, 2008 Tropical Storm Gustav is heading straight for New Orleans and predicted to strike as a Cat 3 Hurricane.

This might seem like a New Orleans problem, but did you know that 43 percent of the U.S. population lives in counties with levees?

You and the folks in New Orleans deserve levees you can trust.

Right now, please click here and Demand the 8/29 Investigation!

After that, please call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at (202) 225-4965. Tell the aide that answers the phone you want to leave a message for Madame Speaker. You will be transferred to her voice mail. Say this,

“I live in (say your state) and I don’t want what happened to New Orleans to happen to me! Please do what you can to get the 8/29 Investigation passed!”

Deadline for both actions: 1pm CST Friday August 29.

Thank you!
Sandy Rosenthal
Founder, and national spokesperson, Levees.Org
http://www.levees.org

That man is a natural gas.

Glenn Beck is full of sympathy /s:

BECK: Why are we spending all this money in New Orleans? We shouldn’t spend a single dime of taxpayers’ money in a place where — I don’t care where it is — where it is in a flood zone. Move out of the place that, you know, you’re below sea level.

I agree. And I assume AT&T will revoke their funding if someone mentions the Fourth Amendment…

His whole proposal is a lot of hot air and the use of Natural gas will not particularly help anything.

OT:

RIP Del Martin …

By 9:00 PM local, are they referring to Mountain time?

Yes.

This has been another one word…

Just spoke with Senator Durbin.

Pach will have more on this later

The whole event is getting sillier by the minute. I’ve yet to hear anyone say that John McCain is unqualified to be commander in chief of the U.S. military, or that he has zero relevant experience.

Pushin’ lots of good vibes to NO.

I don’t mind doing marathon fund drives at my local community radio station for storm victims, but I’d rather not have to.

(((MsAnnaNOLA)))

Or that he is a hot head who jumps emotionally before engaging what brain cells remain

Just think, someday folks will look back at us and say, “These people. they burned oil like there was no tomorrow.”

But that won’t be all they’ll think about us; assuming there will still be folks around to have such perspectives …

We’re all doin’ a heck of a job.

And, should Mc$ame gain POTUS, the folks alive in the rest of the world, today, ain’t gonna be all that pleased with us either.

One hopes that the dems REALLY understand this reality.

If not, and probably regardless, looks as if there is going to be a lot of ’street’ time comin’ for all of us.

Wind turbines are an excellent way to make electricity, and natural gas is an excellent vehicle fuel. But we knew that already.

Hot headed and not very smart. The kind of leader that leads nations to doom and destruction.

Privatizing profits and socializing losses. NeoCapitalism.

Above comment replying to Plungers 27

T-

New Dave Neiwert upstairs

http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_10316723

Our current supply of natural gas is already spoken for

oh kala, what a horrible loss for Phyllis and for all of us.

met her coupla times – one of them was when she broke up what was sure to be a brawl between Quilters and the ACT UP Kidz . . .with a reproving look from across the hall.

loved her. a human rights treasure

Pickens has clearly thought this through. He proposes an array of wind turbines in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth…

interesting in that I’ve always thought of him as the actor to portray Cheney

Thanks for the onsite reports!

OT My son, the new precinct chairman, has been sticking yard signs for Obama, Noriega, and our county commissioner nominee up all over his area. Very few McCain/republican signs. He gives away bumper stickers for free if they let him put them on their cars. Otherwise, they are a dollar. I’m so proud we raised an activist!

Wes Clark questioned McSame’s credentials and although I heard he was invited to the convention, Clark is not on the speakers list.

I heard that the Obama campaign informed Clark his services at the convention were not needed.

You don’t need $300,000 net worth to get into Canada on a special visa, you need $300,000, which you can borrow. That’s how most of the Hong Kong Chinese get in. Given the way our country is going, an exit visa costing $300,000 might not be such a bad deal. There were a lot of people in Germany who would have paid the 1938 equivalent if the option were available (which it wasn’t).

There is no place I would like it to hit, so here’s to hoping it both fizzles and isn’t a Fay either.

Jane on camera again..right behind me..how am I supposed to work?

The backstory on Tammy Duckworth is that she was able to win her primary against Christine Cegelis because Rahm Emmanual got the DCCC to dump millions of dollars into Duckworth’s campaign, sending national bigwigs by the truckload to the district on behalf of Duckworth. Cegelis was more progressive, but Rahm knee-capped her. I got so disgusted with Rahm at that point that I stopped contributing anything to the DCCC. Instead, I now contribute through ActBlue and other progressive venues.

Bob in HI

That’s lovely!

Isn’t Clarke a Clintonite anyways? that might be a factor…